Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

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Textual Production Charlotte Perkins Gilman
CPG 's correspondence with Vernon Lee (on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College , Oxford.
Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press.
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Scharnhorst writes that her papers once in her daughter's hands were...
Textual Production Tillie Olsen
TO 's dazzling performance as a Communist speaker was the first phase of a career that led towards her later years as a star literary lecturer. As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute she spoke...
Textual Production Alice Walker
When in September 1970 Walker applied for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Cambridge to work on this novel, she was planning that her protagonist, a young, Southern woman studying at a genteel black...
Textual Features Tillie Olsen
Olsen gave this book a double dedication. The first read: For our silenced people, century after century their beings consumed in the hard, everyday essential work of maintaining human life. Their art, which still they...
Occupation Gertrude Stein
On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday.
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At Columbia University she had been expected to give four lectures to audiences of approximately two hundred each. However...
Occupation Tillie Olsen
After this, following the example of Anne Sexton , she secured a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute , and moved for a year to Boston with her husband and youngest daughter. This fellowship was extended...
Occupation P. L. Travers
PLT followed her writer-in-residence stint at Radcliffe College with another year in the same position at Smith College , in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne.
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Occupation Alice Walker
Walker closed her stay at the Radcliffe Institute with homage to Zora Neale Hurston , whose writings and life-story she had only recently discovered. She borrowed a curse-prayer from Hurston's Mules and Men, and...
Material Conditions of Writing Tillie Olsen
TO committed herself to producing a huge novel during her tenure of a Ford Foundation grant (for two years from 1959). The burden of this commitment brought physical and mental collapse in early 1961. The...
Material Conditions of Writing Alice Walker
She finished work on this volume (titled from a plant which her mother rescued from a deserted house, kept for years, and gave away in cuttings) during the first year of her Radcliffe Institute fellowship...
Intertextuality and Influence Gertrude Stein
GS 's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College she learned from William James his philosophy of Pragmatism: I...
Friends, Associates Tillie Olsen
TO made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green , who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
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She developed a close friendship with the poet Anne Sexton , from the time that...
Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Stein
GS had had a flirtation with Leon Solomons during her years at Radcliffe , which remained [p]latonic because neither cared to do more.
Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press.
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They had much in common: both were Jewish, intellectuals, and Californians.
Family and Intimate relationships Rosamond Lehmann
RL 's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann , was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock)
Tindall, Gillian. Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press.
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and a graduate of Radcliffe College . She studied history and, according to biographer...
Employer P. L. Travers
PLT had a year as writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College , in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne.
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Timeline

1643: Ann Radcliffe (no relation of the later novelist)...

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1643

Ann Radcliffe (no relation of the later novelist) founded the first scholarship at Harvard College in Newtown in Massachusetts, New England (which had begun as a seminary in 1636).

1836: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount...

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1836

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (later Mount Holyoke College) was founded at South Hadley, Maryland, by Mary Lyon : the first post-secondary educational institution for women in the USA.

1894: The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached...

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1894

The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached to a male seat of learning, Harvard ) received its charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Radcliffe College , an institution for women.

1894: The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached...

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1894

The Harvard Annex (a women's section attached to a male seat of learning, Harvard ) received its charter from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Radcliffe College , an institution for women.

1903: In her early twenties, American Helen Keller...

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1903

In her early twenties, American Helen Keller published The Story of My Life, which relates how she achieved advanced education despite the deafness and blindness that had struck her down in babyhood.

1925: After just two years of study, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin...

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1925

After just two years of study, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin earned a PhD in astronomy at Radcliffe College. It was the first doctorate awarded for research at the Harvard Observatory .

11 February 2007: Drew Gilpin Faust, historian of the Civil...

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11 February 2007

Drew Gilpin Faust , historian of the Civil War and the American South, and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study , was appointed the first female president of Harvard University .

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